Diamond Men skillfully navigates the emerging friendship of nearly burnt out old-timer Eddie Miller (Robert Forster) and cocky young Bobby Walker (Donnie Wahlberg) as they take to the road as jewelry salesman. As Eddie teaches Bobby his professional trade, he…

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There’s something empowering in watching men triumph over monsters, which explains the popularity of Universal Studios’ endless sequels to Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Wolf Man throughout World War II. The cult classic Tremors, featuring a small desert community under attack…

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‘The name sounds familiar but the face escapes me.’ That’s what most people would say about the prolific film, television, and theater actor Brian Cox. With a distinguished stage career in the U.K. spanning four decades, Brian Cox first entered…

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First, let me assure readers that critics from the New York branch of filmcritic.com (myself, Gordon Bass, Pete Croatto, Larry Getlen, and Rachel Gordon) are safe, if shaken, by this indescribable tragedy. Witnesses described the World Trade Center and Pentagon…

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The billboards have been taken down, the endless parade of TV spots has stopped, the lines around the block are now non-existent, and the summer movie fiasco of 2001 has come to a close. With too much time on our…

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An avid fan of Shakespeare since age 12, I jumped on the opportunity to see the latest version of Hamlet, co-directed by Campbell Scott and Eric Simonson. Having watched Mr. Scott during eclectic performances from Mrs. Parker and the Vicious…

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Kate Winslet. Every male I know wants her and many women would like to switch places with her. Why? Because not only is she a talented actress, she is beautiful without succumbing to model measurements, brainy, and speaks with an…

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While we generally adhere to the one movie, one review principle, from time to time, we give equal time to two critics when opinions diverge greatly (see Mission: Impossible 2 and Thirteen Days for examples). But lately, some of the…

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Brad Anderson’s character-driven horror film Session 9 charts the deteriorating mental states of a waste management team as they clear out an abandoned, dilapidated asylum. Shot in and around an actual Victorian-era mental hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts, it remains ambivalent…

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As our resident bogeyman, Christopher Walken has built up a creepy and eclectic repertoire of anxious, vaguely psychotic jitters over the years. With his sinister faraway stare and completely haphazard inflections, he’s often brilliantly typecast as some bizarre archangel of…